Posted on 08/25/2017 7:58:03 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
Today it is clear that Trump is wrestling with how to proceed in governing, as the American elites openly seek his political and even personal destruction. One day he tacks to the establishment in the hopes of appeasing those who hate him, and the next day he embraces his supporters and repeats his campaign pledges to “drain the swamp.”
The lessons of Netanyahu’s first term – and to a degree, his subsequent terms in office as well – are clear enough and Trump would do well to apply them.
You cannot appease people who want to destroy you. And you cannot succeed by embracing the failed policies of your predecessors that you were elected to roll back. The elites who reject you will never embrace you. The only way to govern successfully when you are under relentless assault is to empower your supporters and keep faith with them.
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“The only way to govern successfully when you are under relentless assault is to empower your supporters and keep faith with them.”
Without a doubt.
Trump should hold many more of those campaign style rallies like the one in Phoenix. It energizes his supporters and drives his and our enemies crazy. More importantly it gives him the energy to carry on with confidence.
Even MORE importantly it recruits more supporters. I attended one and would now go again and bring others who would soon be enthusiastic supporters - the type that go to the polls in ice or rain storms, unlike snowflake Dems.
How many of cried out to Pres. W to do this? But he never did.
Dear Caroline, Trump isn’t struggling with anything. If you watched his Phoenix speech with an honest heart, you can see he’s actually thriving on the job. Oh, he has some recalcitrant people trying to impede him. But he’s working to have them primaried on the next go-around. Any setbacks are merely temporary. We Trumpers will vote the resisters out. Buh-bye!
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